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October 9th, 2026
Daily puzzle · Hard · Satellite map
Theme: Towns Cut in Two by a National Border
Some towns never got to choose which country they'd belong to — a line drawn by treaty or war simply sliced them apart. Baarle's houses are so entangled with the Dutch-Belgian frontier that doormats mark which nation you're standing in. Görlitz and Zgorzelec share a single Silesian street plan split by the Neisse river after 1945, while Kerkrade's tram once rolled straight across into Herzogenrath. Narva and Ivangorod still stare at each other across a river from opposite sides of a fortress-guarded frontier.
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Baarle-Hertog, BelgiumA Belgian municipality made up of dozens of enclaves scattered inside the Netherlands.
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Görlitz, GermanyA historic German city on the Neisse river, once whole before the postwar border split it.
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Zgorzelec, PolandThe Polish half of a formerly unified city, separated from Görlitz by the Oder-Neisse line.
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Kerkrade, NetherlandsA Dutch town whose built-up area merges seamlessly with a German neighbor across the frontier.
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Narva, EstoniaAn Estonian border city facing a Russian twin town across the Narva river.